Chicago-area children’s hospitals are seeing dramatic spikes in the numbers of children needing hospitalization for COVID-19, with most of those kids unvaccinated and many younger than 5, doctors say.
The number of children needing hospitalization for COVID-19 has roughly tripled over the last month at Advocate Children’s Hospital, doctors said Thursday, as Illinois continues to see record numbers of cases.
At Advocate Children’s Hospital, which has campuses in Park Ridge and Oak Lawn, the number of kids hospitalized because of COVID-19 or COVID-19-related issues has roughly tripled over the last month, to about 25 to 38 kids in the hospital on a daily basis, said Dr. Frank Belmonte, the hospital’s chief medical officer, during a news conference. About one-fourth of those children are in the intensive care unit, he said.
“For parents of kids who are less than 5, I understand that’s incredibly stressful right now,” Bartlett said.
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